Monday, August 24, 2009

Frank

Dear buddies as I have been saying I had a post to get on here that you would be interested in. That poster below from the Aesthetic Apparatus fellows was printed by my li'l design company down here in Austin. Why you might ask? Well it's not just AA. I have been talking to all my poster maker pals and asking them to make me hot dog prints. Now Jake has been to my pad so he may be thinking "Hot dog prints? You don't have any more wall space dumbass."

He'd be correct but this new venture buddy Northcutt and I got into does. It's called Frank and our sweet old ladies and us are serving hot dogs and sausage to the meat loving masses down in ATX.

We got our shit together and got opened in July. While everyone here on Buddies and Hot Dogs loves dogs as much as their own mammy, due to the lack of a good dog place in Austin we kinda wondered if anyone down thisaway did. Well they do and we've been busier than a three legged cat trying to cover a turd on a marble floor. So busy we only have the restaurant and bar open so far. In the next couple weeks we'll have a full blown fancy ass coffee house and boutique grocery/deli which will be selling the prints.

See these exterior walls prove all that:

Here's a couple things we've painted on the inside with the grocery sign just going in yesterday.

There's a lot more to see but I'll bore you with some of that later. Here's some of the stuff we've been serving up:Chili DogsChicagoSlaw DogAligator boudin fritters with hearts of palm salad and remouladeBeef tenderloin sausage with portobellos, bacon crumbles and demi-glace. Lamb sausage with grilled Haloumi cheese, harissa aioli and roasted red peppersOur custom made Jackalope - Antelope rabbit sausage, sriracha aioli, huckleberry compote and applewood smoked cheddarAnd last but not least our other permanent menu sausage the Texalina - beef and pork with South Carolina mustard BBQ sauce, grilled cole slaw and white cheddar cheese. This one is served in our Flapjacket. A corndog batter jacket.

Here's a couple of the drinks:

Bloody Mary made with bacon infused vodka

And the Italian Honey. A drink made with vodka, midori and garnished with prosciutto

Anyway duders. This is what I've been up to the last few months. Finally got the doors open and with just a little more work it will be in full swing. You can see our temporary site here which has some of our menus:

The place looks pretty tight. It's calling me. I can just hear it over this new Big Business album. When's a good time to head down? I'm thinking December or January. I needs to eat there pronto. Well, I'm staying with my folks for a while and they're calling me for supper (I'm 30).

Meanwhile, in October, the dogs just keep getting better.You dudes need to get down here and get wrecked on meat and booze. There's a high probability of some involvement of good live heavy metal as well. shit just got real.

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Some men need religion. Some need a wife and 2.5 kids. Others need 567 friends on Facebook. Some might even want calf implants. We're dudes who need just two things to get through those days filled with tumult, despair, and that feeling deep in your gut things will only get worse and sooner than you can possibly even imagine you will be dead from something you have no control over and forgotten forever. Those two things? A good buddy and a good hot dog. This site's for them.

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